Anthropic PPTX Skill

Last reviewed: 2026-04-28

Official General Purpose Open Source

Best for: General-purpose PPTX generation with built-in quality assurance and the simplest one-command install of any skill on this list

Not ideal for: Brand-matched presentations, research-heavy decks needing auto-generated visuals, or heavy customization beyond palettes

Core Features

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Topic-Specific Color Palettes

Automatically selects a color scheme appropriate to your topic — tech, finance, healthcare, education — without manual configuration.

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Built-in Design QA Pipeline

Post-generation quality checks verify contrast ratios, font sizing, and layout consistency before delivering the final file.

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Create / Edit / Read Workflows

Not just a generator — you can open an existing PPTX, read its content, and make targeted edits without rebuilding from scratch.

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Official Anthropic Skill

Maintained by Anthropic — the reference implementation for Claude Code PPTX generation. Install via git clone, with pip/npm dependencies for full functionality.

How It Works

Intent parsing — Claude reads your prompt and infers topic, audience, tone, and desired slide count.

Palette selection — Topic classifier picks a matching color palette (e.g. navy + gold for finance, green + white for healthcare).

Slide generation — Layouts, text hierarchy, and placeholder images are assembled using python-pptx.

QA pass — Design checks run automatically: contrast, font size, overflow detection. Issues are corrected before output.

PPTX delivered — File is ready to open in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides.

Signals

Publisher

Anthropic (official)

Maintenance

Actively maintained

Install Method

git clone + pip/npm

License

MIT

Output Format

.pptx

Our Test Score

4.3 / 5

Quality Assessment

Output Quality

4.3

Ease of Use

3.3

Design Consistency

4.3

Reliability

4.4

Scores based on hands-on testing: generated a 5-slide presentation with Ocean Gradient palette, stat cards, two-column layout, and bar chart. Output quality and design consistency are strong. Ease of use penalized for dependency friction (Python 3.12+ required for markitdown, LibreOffice needed for visual QA, pptxgenjs requires local npm install). Visual QA pipeline has a high setup cost but catches real layout issues.

Install & Use

# Install
git clone https://github.com/anthropics/skills
cp -r skills/skills/pptx ~/.claude/skills/anthropic-pptx

# Install dependencies
pip install "markitdown[pptx]" Pillow
npm install -g pptxgenjs
# Also requires: LibreOffice (soffice) + Poppler (pdftoppm) for PDF workflows

# Usage examples in Claude Code:
# "Create a 10-slide product roadmap for Q3"
# "Edit slide 3 of my deck to add a chart placeholder"
# "Read my existing deck.pptx and summarize the key points"
# "Make a pitch deck for a fintech startup raising Series A"
        